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The new electronic music series took over the riverside setting at Magazine London, moving from afternoon daylight through sunset and into night, with the skyline, river and cityscape in full view.

This summer, Alexander Stadium hosted Britain's first European Athletics Championships. Getting there meant reshaping the venue without ever slowing it down.

For Brighton & Hove Pride on the Park 2026, Star Live delivered the main VerTech™ stage with a thrust that brought artists closer to the crowd. Front-of-house structures, audio-delay towers, and AVP and signer platforms supported production, coverage and accessibility across Preston Park.

As sport and entertainment continue to converge, the infrastructure behind them is evolving too. Stages, hospitality, seating and fan spaces are no longer standalone elements; they're designed to work together to create a seamless event experience.

For the second year, Star Live delivered Starbox hospitality for London T100 at ExCeL London, creating a VIP guest space with views across the transition phase, the runners’ final straight and the finish line.

🏰 Edinburgh Castle once again provided one of the UK's most spectacular live music settings this July (2026), with seven very different productions taking place across two weekends on a custom 15m VerTech stage designed and delivered by Star Live.

💫In 1976, one of the very first artists Star Live supported was the Sex Pistols at The 100 Club. This weekend (12 July 2026), our team delivered the stage for the band's performance at Sounds of the City in Manchester.

The inaugural American Express presents Roundhay Festival brought world-class live music to one of the UK's largest urban green spaces this weekend. Helping launch a brand-new festival is always special. Working alongside AEG Presents UK and LS Events, Star Live engineered and installed the core event structures that welcomed artists and audiences to Roundhay Park for the very first time.

Just over a week ago, the all-new Panorama Stage made its debut at Parklife Festival.

For the Star Live team, Wimbledon is one of those projects. While the finished venue may look familiar each summer, every installation is the result of months of planning and collaboration. From our teams in Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire to those on site at Wimbledon, hundreds of decisions are made long before the first ball is struck, ensuring everything is ready to the exacting standards The Championships demand. Each April, our team returns to The All England Lawn Tennis Club and Roehampton to deliver the extensive temporary structures that support The Championships and the Wimbledon Qualifying Competition, creating the Southern Village and hospitality, retail and operational spaces that help the event come to life.

While Cannes Lions is known for creativity, conversations and hospitality, what often goes unseen is the scale of infrastructure required to bring these experiences to life. This year, Star Live delivered the structural foundations behind three major beachfront projects: the full build for Sport Beach, two structures for Google with Amplify, and a bespoke pergola structure for Canva with Public School.

Download Festival XXIII marked the first major deployment of Star Live's Titan stage system as part of a new partnership with Live Nation. At the heart of the Main Arena stood the festival's new main stage, designed and constructed using Titan ­– Star Live's next-generation staging system and now the UK's largest festival stage. Engineered for the demands of today's most ambitious productions, Titan delivers exceptional roof loading capacity, advanced wind management technology, enhanced access throughout the structure for safer and more efficient working at height, and Star Live's SMART lifting system, helping production teams work faster, safer and more effectively. Supporting the arena were four new 25m Titan SQ AV towers, providing structural support for Download's iconic cylindrical video screens, audience lighting and audio delay systems. V-Tower delay positions, FOH structures, camera platforms and viewing facilities completed the infrastructure package, creating a world-class production environment for artists, crews and fans alike.

As Star Live celebrates 50 years in business, The Times explores the company’s evolution from its live music roots into a multi-service events partner.

Star Live was awarded Project of the Year for Commercial/Retail/Leisure at the MMC Awards on 7 May 2026, for our work on NEON at Battersea Power Station. This was a brilliantly ambitious project and one that pushed what immersive spaces can look and feel like within one of London’s most iconic redevelopment projects. Delivered as a 3,200m² modular immersive venue, the project combined modern construction methods with permanent building standards – including a 128-tonne roof installation using 48 synchronised hoists, a programme delivered 60% faster than traditional methods and a structure with 95% reusable materials, including steel, MEP and façade systems.

Working in collaboration with LST Venues and C6 Works, Star Live installed a temporary seating solution at Drumsheds, London, for the World Fitness Project – Tour Stop 1, held from 1–3 May. With 3,500 seats in place, the focus went beyond capacity – balancing accessibility, audience flow and safe egress, all engineered to support safe, efficient movement throughout. A great example of shared expertise in action, bringing together the right teams to deliver a smooth audience experience from first rep to final result🏅

In 2025, Star Live delivered the original design and build of NEON at Battersea Power Station – a modular, semi-permanent exhibition space created with flexibility built in from day one. The venue opened in June 2025 with Jurassic World: The Exhibition. At the end of its run in January, the space closed for the removal of that experience and the installation of its successor, Ramses and the Pharaohs’ Gold. During that transition, our team delivered a targeted upgrade programme to enhance performance, future usability and visitor experience.

For Burberry’s London Fashion Week AW26 show, they wanted a runway and bleacher seating set around a stylised Tower Bridge reflecting London’s reputation for rain.

Huge congratulations to Roger Barrett on receiving the Industry Recognition Award at the 2026 TPi Awards in London.

What began in 1976 with Roger Barrett hiring out audio equipment to studios and venues has grown into a global partner delivering large-scale structural solutions around the world. Built on Roger’s vision and drive, Star Live has never stood still. From audio services to the design and delivery of ambitious temporary and permanent structures, the business has expanded in scale, capability and confidence.

The Star Live Arabia team has delivered a strong run of projects in recent weeks, supporting major sport and entertainment events across the Kingdom. In Jeddah, working with Onyx Arena and their Head of Operations, Anthony Frost, the team delivered infrastructure for two high-profile projects. At WEEKends Music and Art Festival, VIP viewing platforms were installed using our StarLok system, creating elevated, secure environments for premium guest experience. For ATP Tennis, a 270-seat spectator installation provided compliant, comfortable viewing infrastructure delivered efficiently to tournament standards.

After an 18 month assessment, Roger’s knowledge and hands on experience have been recognised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Engineering Council as meeting the highest professional standard an engineer can achieve in the UK. Even more impressive – he achieved CEng having left school at 15 and being self-taught. In the specialist world of temporary staging and live event structures, that demands serious experience, demonstrable competence and the ability to evidence engineering excellence against traditional benchmarks. This is about more than letters after a name. It is recognition that live event engineering is complex, safety critical work and, yes, very much a ‘proper’ job!

Star Live’s International Operations team supported Book My Show (BMS) Live in delivering a 25m VerTech stage and Ultra delay structures for Linkin Park live in Bengaluru, India, built to perform at full volume. The Star Live–designed and supplied VerTech stage is now a familiar sight at concerts and festivals across India featuring international artists, demonstrating its strength and versatility as the first European-standard, all-steel stage system operating in the region.

Star Live has announced a new strategic partnership with Electra, bringing together two internationally respected delivery partners to support the rapidly expanding live events and experiences sector across Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East.

The rapid build of the Mundo Pixar immersive venue is well underway – a 3,500 sqm temporary structure that will soon host the world’s largest Pixar exhibition.

Congratulations to our clients LS Events and AEG Presents on their recent win – LIDO receiving The Festival Award at the ZYN Rolling Stone UK Awards 2025.

Today (26 November),  Star Live's Roger Barrett will be speaking at the Institute of Licensing’s National Training Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon. Roger takes the stage at 2pm at the Crowne Plaza, where he’ll be exploring one of the industry’s most vital topics: Who decides whether temporary event structures are safe enough?

TOURISE 2025 (11-13 November 2025) marked the launch of a new global summit highlighting the impact tourism can have on people, places and communities around the world. Led by the Ministry of Tourism of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Tourism Authority, and creatively driven by our client Imagination, the summit brought together governments, NGOs, businesses and cultural leaders to explore how the sector can drive real progress.

At Star Live we’re accredited by the Living Wage Foundation as a Living Wage Employer – a commitment we’ve proudly held since 2023 because fair pay matters.

Every grandstand we build is a balance of strength, comfort and sightlines. Designed to meet BS EN 13200 and the Green Guide, every beam, joint and fixing is modelled, checked and tested before a single seat is fitted.

Today (29 October) is World Sustainability Day, the perfect day to share the results of our latest ESG audit – with Star Live scoring 70%, earning a “Value Add” classification and placing us in the top 15% of companies across the LDC portfolio.

Three Starbox units were supplied for the Vikings Museum and retail outlets at the Fanzone pop-up at Battersea Power Station timed with their win over the New York Jets at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 6th October.

What does it take to deliver a London Fashion Week show inside a live construction site? Precision, partnership and a whole lot of logistical wizardry.

From the rock and roll of Oasis Live ’25 to the spectacle of Robbie Williams’ Britpop tour, both shows at Croke Park relied on Star Live’s Ultra Stage™ system.

Croke Park roared for Oasis – and Star Live was at the heart of it, delivering the stage for their last European stop, until their return to Wembley in September.

Star Live returned to the iconic Royal Hospital Chelsea, delivering the temporary infrastructure behind one of the most prestigious events on the global equestrian calendar.

The 2025 Formula E World Championship season to a roaring close at ExCeL London, and Star Live was right on track with a high-performance delivery.

Star Live Arabia delivers premium grandstand and stadium seating for sporting fixtures, ceremonies and brand activations across the Kingdom.

Each summer, Manchester’s music scene finds a home like no other – Castlefield Bowl, where history, live performance and water meet in spectacular style.

BST Hyde Park returned this summer with another unforgettable season, reaffirming its place as one of the world’s leading live music festivals.

Star Live delivered a bespoke 15m VerTech stage for this year's Edinburgh Castle Concert series, perched right at the heart of one of Scotland’s most iconic landmarks.

From the first chord to the final encore, Ultra™ works for production, promoters and fans alike.

This summer Parklife brought the noise to Manchester, while Star Live brought the energy, scale and spectacle to the high-octane Hangar Stage and Arena and the immersive Magic Sky Stage.

Now in our third year at SW19, the Star Live team has installed a range of temporary infrastructure across The Grounds, the Qualifying Sports Centre in Roehampton, and Wimbledon Park.

LIDO Festival made its debut this summer in Victoria Park, and we were proud to work with our valued clients AEG Presents and LS Events to deliver this bold new addition to the London festival calendar.

Star Live was proud to deliver the bespoke grandstand-style seating for Hamlet: Hail to the Thief at Manchester’s Aviva Studios — a bold reimagining of Shakespeare’s classic, by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Factory International and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke.

Festival season has landed in Brockwell Park, for the third year running Star Live is providing the temporary infrastructure behind one of London’s most exciting live event series.

At Star Live, we’ve taken proven construction principles from the high-pressure world of live events and applied them to the built environment – with game-changing results.

At Star Live we’re honoured to have helped BBC Studios bring VE80 commemorations to life with event infrastructure - creating a moment for tribute, remembrance and national reflection.

This morning, Star Live's Simon Broyd presented to the team at Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB), from their impressive offices in The Shard, London.

This weekend, Star Live delivered a striking, multi-level viewing wall for Red Bull Featured - an innovative BMX competition that electrified Manchester Central.

Our very own Roger Barrett will be delivering an expert session on "Safe Structures" at The Institute of Licensing's Large Events Conference, this afternoon (25th March), at the Coventry Building Society Arena.